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Back to SearchImbolo Mbue on Writing Her Second Novel
Episode 338
Imbolo Mbue first began writing her new novel, “How Beautiful We Were,” in 2002. The book concerns the impact of an American oil company’s presence o…
5 years, 5 months ago
Kazuo Ishiguro and Friendship With Machines
Episode 337
Kazuo Ishigruo’s eighth novel, “Klara and the Sun,” is his first since he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2017. It’s narrated by Klara, an Arti…
5 years, 6 months ago
Lauren Oyler Talks About Deception Online
Episode 336
Lauren Oyler’s debut novel, “Fake Accounts,” features a nameless narrator who discovers that her boyfriend has a secret life online, where he posts c…
5 years, 6 months ago
Writing About Illness Without Platitudes
Episode 335
At 22 years old, Suleika Jaouad was a recent college graduate who had moved to Paris, looking forward to everything life might offer. Then she receiv…
5 years, 6 months ago
This Land Is Whose Land?
Episode 334
When Simon Winchester takes on a big subject, he takes on a big subject. His new book, “Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World,” …
5 years, 6 months ago
Chang-rae Lee on His New Novel: ‘It’s Kind of a Crazy Book.’
Episode 333
Chang-rae Lee’s new novel, “My Year Abroad,” is his sixth. On this week’s podcast, Lee says that his readers might be surprised by it.
“It’s kind of a…
5 years, 7 months ago
Navigating the Maze of Paying for College
Episode 332
Ron Lieber’s new book, “The Price You Pay for College,” aims at helping families with, as the book’s subtitle puts it, the biggest financial decision…
5 years, 7 months ago
The Ethics of Adoption in America
Episode 331
In “American Baby,” the veteran journalist Gabrielle Glaser tells the story of one mother and child, and also zooms out from there to consider the et…
5 years, 7 months ago
James Comey and Truth in Government
Episode 330
James Comey’s “Saving Justice,” arrives three years after his first book, “A Higher Loyalty.” Joe Klein reviews it for us, and visits the podcast thi…
5 years, 7 months ago
Charles Yu Talks About ‘Interior Chinatown’
Episode 329
Charles Yu’s “Interior Chinatown,” which won the National Book Award for fiction in November, is a satire about Hollywood’s treatment of Asian-Americ…
5 years, 7 months ago